Getting round the 40 min limit

Getting round the 40 min limit [UPDATE: no longer]

If you’re using the free version of Zoom – meetings automatically end after 40 minutes

You used to be able to simply restart the meeting (same meeting, same ID, same link) and everyone could re-join again – and you’d have another 40 mins.

However, it appears that Zoom has now implemented a 9 or 10 minute delay before you can restart the meeting (at least for some people)

As of 18/05/23 I could find no formal acknowledgement of this on their website, but on their forum pages at least a couple of threads refered to this issue … with some frustration and annoyance.

So your options appear to be:

• to upgrade to Zoom Pro
• to find an alternative free online meeting App
• to warn people that after 40 minutes you’ll be taking a ten minute break